Kids and Passion

Anytime you’re presenting and you’re coming up with your messages you’ve always got to ask yourself what is it I really care about and why do I care about this.

I’ve been teaching people on public speaking for 30 years and I can tell you it doesn’t matter if it’s somebody five years old or eighty five years old.

Across the globe what audiences like is when they’re seeing somebody speak who seems like they care about the topic who seems passionate about the subject.

Now I understand you can’t be passionate and exciting excited about everything.

Your teacher may give you some assignment and it’s just not the most exciting one of the world.

You’ve still got to find what about this particular topic is more interesting than other stuff.

If you want people to pay attention to you if you want to get a good grade.

If you want to seem like you understand a subject then you’ve got to talk about it with a little passion.

You’ve got to seem like you care because here’s the thing.

If you don’t care no one else will either and everyone else will just be daydreaming doodling.

They’ll be thinking about something else and they’re just going to zone out.

That’s the biggest problem most people have when they are giving a talk a speech a book report.

It’s not that they look so nervous and there’s sweat coming down their face and they have to run out of the room.

The biggest problem most people have is they just present information in such a boring way.

Here’s a fact here’s a fact I’m kind of reading the phone book that nobody pays attention.

Nobody really listens and it’s instantly forgotten.

That’s not a way to make a good impression on your teacher or on your fellow classmates on anyone you’re talking to at any point.

Friends family members.

So part of what is important when you’re coming up with your talk with you’re coming up with your messages with what to say is you’ve somehow got to find something you care about.

Now it has nothing to do with the topic.

You can be incredibly bored and sound bored talking about the World Series.

If you don’t like baseball on the other hand you can be incredibly passionate and excited talking about math.

If you love math so don’t give yourself the excuse of well this is just a boring topic.

You’ve gotta find something in that topic that excites you.

If you want to give a great presentation and if you want to build your skills get you’re gonna have a long long long lifetime of giving presentations.

You’re going to be giving talks presentations speeches public speeches for decades.

Why not learn how to get a little bit better every single time and learn how to make each one a little easier for the next one.

That’s what it’s all about so I want you to look at your messages that you’re coming up with and really figure out which ones you care about the most.

Why do you care about it.

If you can put a spotlight on that you’re going to be a lot more interesting to listen to and that is half the battle.